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  2. The Life-Changing Hack for Defrosting Your Windshield - AOL

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    According to Reddit user Luisquin, to melt ice, put windshield wiper fluid in a spray bottle and apply it directly to your icy car windows. "There's no risk of cracking the glass like using hot ...

  3. Earthen plaster - Wikipedia

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    Earthen plasters are becoming more popular in interior design due to its sustainable and eco-friendly characteristics. The plaster influences the thermal comfort, the indoor air quality and energy efficiency in a positive way. During the drying process however, there is shrinkage which affects its ability to adhere properly to the surface. [3 ...

  4. 18 Slick Car Cleaning Tricks Only the Pros Know - AOL

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    1. Get Rid of Scratches First. Buffing your car won't do a thing until the scratches are taken care of. Scratch repair kits are easy enough to come by.

  5. Spackling paste - Wikipedia

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    Spackling paste is comparable and contrastable with joint compound as both look similar and serve the similar purpose of filling in low spots in walls and ceilings. [3] The chief differences are that spackling paste typically dries faster, shrinks less during drying, and is meant for smaller repairs, and not for a whole room or house.

  6. Environmental stress cracking - Wikipedia

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    Environmental Stress Cracking (ESC) is one of the most common causes of unexpected brittle failure of thermoplastic (especially amorphous) polymers known at present. According to ASTM D883, stress cracking is defined as "an external or internal crack in a plastic caused by tensile stresses less than its short-term mechanical strength".

  7. Self-healing material - Wikipedia

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    Upon cracking, these particles are exposed to oxygen, and in the presence of heat, they react to form new materials which fill the crack gap under volume expansion. [123] This concept has been proven using SiC to heal cracks in an Alumina matrix, [ 124 ] and further studies have investigated the high temperature strength, [ 125 ] and the static ...

  8. Dry rot - Wikipedia

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    However, given that dry rot attacks only wet timber, common sense should dictate that plaster need not be removed where there is no timber or any timber is dry (outside the zone of wetting that caused the outbreak) [citation needed]. Identifying the source of water and allowing the affected timbers to dry will kill dry rot, as it is a fungus ...

  9. Cracking shot! Kevin O’Brien smashes a six and his own car window

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